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Two of the four macroeconomic adjustment programmes, Portugal and Ireland s, can be considered a success in the sense that the initial expectations in terms of adjustment, both fiscal and external, were broadly fulfilled. A rebound based on exports has taken hold in these two countries, but a...
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We analyze the importance of global shocks for the global economy and national policy makers. More specifically, we … investigate whether monetary policy has become less effective in the wake of financial globalization. We also examine whether … ; international policy coordination and transmission ; factor augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) models ; common factors …
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The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why privatization is useful as well as profitable for an...
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This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...
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effects of forecasters. However, the implications for fiscal policy should be considered with caution as a false forecast of …
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